A nice article is featured in todays (Sat 28 June) Independent newspaper - within the Magazine supplement. It features Mark and Al on their Northern Lights trip as well as some stunning elemental images.
The online version of the arcticle can be found here - Independent article Mark Humpage
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I have updated the gallery to include more photos from our recent Tornado Project trip. Tornado Gallery Photos
The final batch of photos from the trip will be uploaded in the next few days.
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A disappointing day to end the trip. We positioned in South Dakota on the east side of the Black mountains with high expectation of good storms. They never materialised as forecast.  Moisture and  temps not as good as expected and also a capped environment prohibited storms. One severe thunderstorm materialised at the very end of [...]

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Target for today is South Dakota. Currently heading towards Sturgis. Good potential today for some pretty supercells and if we get lucky a nice tornado. Storm motion is very slow, for a change! Update later with pictures.
Currently sitting tight in Sturgis, South Dakota (outside the Harley Davidson shop) awaiting for storms to initiate.

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Today is a travel day in preparation for a tornado potential day in the Dakotas. Another very long drive from Oklahoma. Travelled through Greensburg, which was devastated by an EF5 tornado last year. Amazing that one year on how rebuilding much work has been done and yet how much damage is still evident. Stopped at [...]

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What a fantastic day. A mammoth 7 hour journey south from Iowa to Oklahoma was called for in order to get good storms. Having arrived in the Oklahoma panhadle approx 2/3pm we targeted storms on the south of a line, near the Texas border. They were slow moving and photogenic. We watched some amazing cloud [...]

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Today, Al and I have captured a tornado in Iowa. A day full of action and excitement. We watched the entire thunderstorm life cycle on many storms as they tracked across Iowa. Storm structure was amazing and some of the cloud formations were jaw dropping.
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Midday here. Currently heading towards Fort Dodge in Iowa where forecast for tornadoes and supercells is looking favourable.
Will update later.

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A very frustrating day. Forecast not particularly good for today. We could have played the higher risk squall line scenario to the north, which would have been a repeat of yesterday - poor chase conditions, or an even slimmer risk of storms breaking out in SE Kansas/Ne Oklahoma. We played the latter option and headed [...]

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We arrived in Denver, Colorado and after a hectic first day positioning we are now chasing tornadoes in Kansas. There is a high risk of tornadoes all day today. Currently experiencing 44mph gusts (recorded) and chasing a long line of very active thunderstorms with tornado warnings issued.
The conditions are extremely windy, lots of lightning [...]

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